Note: This post is aimed at Joomla beginners – make that absolute Joomla beginners! We’ve been writing posts for extremely advanced Joomla developers for a long time now and we thought writing a post for absolute beginners would be the right thing to do on New Year’s Eve (Happy New Year, by the way)! We […]

A new client of ours has been using Joomla for a long time (since Joomla 1.5 was introduced), but has never, ever used Apache’s URL Rewriting. She has been using Joomla’s SEF all the time, but she never enabled the Use URL Rewriting feature. She knew that enabling URL rewriting can boost the search engine […]

Joomla 1.5, probably the most used Joomla version ever, officially died back in 2012. Back then, many Joomla administrators were faced with a dilemma: Should we migrate our Joomla website(s) to 2.5? Or should we switch to another CMS? The decision was not easy, because in many cases, the costs of migrating to Joomla 2.5 […]

We’re not big fans of the #__assets table, but you probably know this already if you’re one of our loyal readers! The #__assets table makes everything on the website slower, and not to mention that minor data integrity issues on that table can lead to large problems on the Joomla website. But let’s focus in […]

Here’s how the majority of malicious users try to hack your beloved Joomla website: They search for an exploit on your Joomla website. They use that exploit to upload a PHP file to your website. They invoke the URL pointing to that file, and by doing so, they create duplicates of the malicious file, hack […]

Note: The second solution presented in this post is a core change. Keep in mind that if you change the core of your Joomla website, you may need to re-apply your changes after a Joomla update. Also keep in mind that this particular core change may compromise the stability of your website (especially if your […]